kuk Uhlan regiment "Nicholas II. Emperor of Russia" No. 5

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The kuk Uhlan regiment "Nicholas II. Emperor of Russia No. 5" was a cavalry unit in the common army within the Austro-Hungarian land forces .

In 1915, all honorary names were deleted without replacement. From then on, the association was officially called “kuk Uhlan Regiment No. 5”. (However, this could not be enforced in common parlance, on the one hand because nobody adhered to it, on the other hand the thrifty kuk military administration had ordered that all existing stamps and forms be used up first.)

Establishment

  • By the Croatian 1,848 Banus Feldmarschalleutnant Jelacic as part of the Croatian insurrection duration of the war with a thickness of three divisions as "Banderial- Hussar - Regiment set up."
  • 1849 By the highest resolution of July 23, it was added to the imperial army as regular hussar regiment No. 13, retaining its original name.
  • In 1850 the regiment was dissolved, but with a decree of January 8, 1851, the former personnel were re-established as the “Croatian-Slavonian Uhlan Regiment No. 5” with four divisions.
  • In 1860 the 4th Division was dissolved.

additions

This regiment has been recruited from Croatia ( Slavonia ) since its establishment

  • 1853–60 from the advertising area of ​​Infantry Regiment No. 53 ( Agram ),
  • 1860–67 from the district of Infantry Regiment No. 78 ( Essegg )
  • 1867–73 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 53 and No. 78
  • 1873–80 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 16 ( Belovar ), No. 53 and No. 78
  • 1880–83 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 16, 70 and 78 (Belovar, Peterwardein , Essegg)
  • 1883–89 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 53 and No. 96 (Agram, Carlstadt ).
  • In 1889 it became the area of ​​the XIII. Corps (Military Territorial District Agram).

Peace garrisons

Regimental owner

Regimental Commanders

  • 1849 Colonel Otto Graf Sermage
  • 1849 Colonel Anton Freiherr Jellacic de Buzim
  • 1854 Colonel Ferdinand Freiherr von Kirchbach
  • 1859 Colonel Julius Fluck Edler von Leidenkorn
  • 1864 Colonel Friedrich Graf Schaaffgotsche
  • 1865 Colonel Paul Graf Hompesch-Bollheim
  • 1869 Colonel Adolph Ritter von Wislocki
  • 1873 Colonel Carl Chevalier Ruiz de Roxas
  • 1877 Colonel Peter Edler von Ther
  • 1882 Colonel Gustav Wimmer
  • 1887 Colonel Hugo Freiherr Komers von Lindenbach
  • 1894 Colonel Maxmilian Graf Hoditz and Wolframitz
  • 1894 Colonel Oscar Ritter Kiwisch von Rotterau
  • 1900 Colonel Richard Clausnitz
  • 1905 Colonel Viktor Mayr
  • 1910 Colonel Gustav Loserth
  • 1914 Lieutenant Colonel Rudolf Furtmüller

Battle calendar

Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire

  • In 1848 the regiment was part of the army of the Banus outside Vienna and was involved in the battle near Schwechat . It was still fighting in the battles near Parndorf and Moór
  • 1849 Battle at Tetényi, divisions fought in the attack on Neuhäusel and the battles near Szolnok and Tapio-Bicske as well as in the battle of Isaszeg. During the summer campaign, the regiment was assigned to the Banus Southern Army and mostly assigned to the individual infantry brigades by squadrons. Fight at Peterwardein , Óbecse and Hegyes.

German war

  • 1866 Five squadrons were detached to the 2nd Reserve Cavalry Division of the Northern Army and fought in the Battle of Königgrätz . In the battle near Tischnowitz some units suffered heavy losses.

Bosnian crisis

  • In 1878 the regiment was the cavalry brigade of the XIII. Army Corps assigned. Three trains were as bar forces in use, individual departments were at battles in Banjaluka , Jajce , Sarajevo , Velečevo and Ključ involved

First World War

During the First World War, the Uhlans fought as a cavalryman in all theaters of war in the east and south-east. (It is currently not known whether they were deployed as division cavalry in a closed regimental formation or in squadrons .) Like all cavalry regiments, this was also deployed as infantry .

Whereabouts

Shortly before the end of the fighting, when the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was imminent, most of the regiments not of German origin disbanded for the most part independently or followed the call of their respective interim governments to return home. The regiment dropped its non-Serbian-Croatian officers and headed home from Ukraine. Here it had to fight against Ukrainian troops and had to cross the Carpathians on foot. Only parts of the association reached the former border near Podwoloczyska.

Status and association membership 1914

  • 5th Army Corps - 2nd Cavalry Troop Division - 16th Cavalry Brigade
  • Nationalities: 97% Croatians
  • Regimental language: Croatian

Adjustment

  • 1848: black shako , cornflower blue fur, attila and trousers, yellow buttons
  • 1851: light blue czapka , dark green ulanka and pantaloons, scarlet equalization , yellow buttons
  • 1865: blue Tatarka , light blue ulanka and trousers, madder red equalization, yellow buttons
  • 1868: light blue Tatarka, light blue ulanka, madder red leveling and breeches, yellow buttons
  • 1876: light blue czapka, light blue ulanka, madder red leveling and boot pants, yellow buttons

structure

At the time of formation, this regiment consisted of four divisions. (A division was used here to refer to a battalion-strength unit. The correct division was called an infantry or cavalry division.) Each division had three squadrons . The number of riders was usually around 160 per squadron.

The individual divisions were named after their formal leaders:

  • the 1st division was the colonel division
  • the 2nd division was the lieutenant colonel (lieutenant colonel) division
  • the 3rd division was the majors division
  • the 4th division was the 2nd majors division

Shortly after the regiment was reclassified in 1860, the cavalry regiments were reduced to two divisions

Footnotes

  1. ↑ according to “Announcement of the Quartermaster's Department” of Army Group Command FM. Archduke Eugen / Q.Op. No. 665/15. Issued by the field post office 512

literature

  • Alphons v. Wrede: History of the KuK Wehrmacht from 1618 to the end of the XIX century Vienna 1898–1905.
  • Georg Schreiber : The emperor's cavalry. Austrian cavalry in 4 centuries. With a foreword by Alois Podhajsky . Speidel, Vienna 1967.
  • BM Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1999.
  • Allmayer-Beck / Lessing: The Austro-Hungarian Army 1848–1914. Bertelsmann, Munich 1974.
  • Osprey Military. Men-at-arms Series No. 329.